Dual Diagnosis Anyone?

I wonder just how many of us drunks also suffer with some brain disorder / mental illness, what percent? I will say about 40 % but its a guess.

Very few places that detox drunks and purport to rehab us even consider how their typically poor success rates coincide with them not treating the mental illness aspect.

Treatment programs just for addicts are co$tly indeed. Few poor drunks have a shot at a good one.

FAR fewer places offer a program for dual diagnosis clients and far fewer still have any success with these clients.

A brief aside, criminals probably go in and out of prison with better success in recidivism rates.


I called around the country for treatment costs. Typically a two month program that includes detox runs about $60,000 though if you check out the websites when you input dual diagnosis treatment center on google, few of the sites list their fees.

Hmm. Maybe they can instantaneously check your bank account when you call?

This does not include travel, after care apartments, more time etc. nor does it cover loss of income.

No mention is made on the sites about how your family will treat you after your treatment. They may not care by this time.

AND, what if the center you attend does detox you, has some success with alcohol or drug rehab as well but the mental health part, typically depression like I have, is a complete failure? Isn't falling back into drinking highly likely even with AA or day treatment?

I have thought further about this. With fund$, read a big lottery win, I would first get my blood chelated after a week of detox. Then I would seek out rTMS for the depression. Then I would go back to the treatment center for a month or more of rehab.

Total cost, about $125,000.

Till I have this amount, maybe another $50,000 for other new therapies, I am stuck with being a better drunk.

Its sad.

Skol.